I feel a bit like Helen Keller's tutor

[femkes_follies]

The "you will eat one bite" battle over a 1/4" cube of chicken nugget lasted 1 hr. and 6 minutes. Filled with tears, shrieks, sobs, begging, writhing and carrying on. (Begging was particularly difficult - she asked for "downtairs", "bed" and "Elmo" in sequence. And ended with "up?"). I DID let her into my lap. And finally, with a tiny sprinkle of salt (which she likes. A lot), did she eat a tiny fragment of nugget, very reluctantly.

So I'm done in. No sewing tonight. And tomorrow's battle should last.... 50 minutes? I do remember the battle over sleeping IN the bed when she was 2.